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“Telling Our Stories” Photography Exhibit
In addition to its booth in the Kerr Scott building at the State Fair Oct. 16-26,
Cultural Resources will bring storytellers to the fair this year. It’s part of the obser-vance
of the 2008 “Telling Our Stories” theme. The State Fair has made available the
Folk Festival tent for seven of the 10 evenings of the fair. Members of the Black Sto-rytellers
Association and the North Carolina Storytellers Guild are volunteering to tell
stories at 6 p.m. This free family entertainment will be food for the spirits and a lift
for the soul. Visit www.ncculture.com under “News” for the schedule.
Storytellers at the State Fair
Spring 2008 Vol. 1 Issue 3 - Fall 2008
The Department of Cultural Resources has
organized a traveling exhibit of North Carolina’s
professional and amateur photographers along
with images from the State Archives. From Octo-ber
2008 to December 2009 the photographs will
travel to 34 public libraries from Elizabeth City to
Lake Lure.
The Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibit
celebrates the 2008 Cultural Resources “Telling
Our Stories” theme. Images from the State Ar-chives
will be on tour for the first time.
In a collaboration with Our State magazine,
the top winners of its Readers Choice photography
contest will be presented. Works submitted by
some of the state’s best professional photogra-phers
were selected by a panel at Cultural Re-sources.
The State Library made the exhibit avail-able
to libraries that requested it. The exhibit
starts in the east on Oct. 9 at New Hanover Public
“Chore Time at the Farm” from the State Archives, ConDev 188A
Library in Wilmington and will be formally launched on
Oct. 16 in Winston-Salem at the Forsyth County Public
Library.
These photographs focus a lens on our state at
work and play, young and old, and reflect the many stories
that can be told about our state.
Storyteller “Gran’daddy Junebug”
Vol. 1 Issue 3 - Fall 2008
New Theme for Cultural Resources in 2009 Page 2
The new ��Treasure N.C. Culture” theme for the depart-ment
in 2009 will allow agencies to showcase all the unique and
valuable programs and services that they offer. The logo should be
used on letterhead, web pages, and in all promotional materials cre-ated
within the department. It also will serve as a unifying image
for all of the wonderful elements in the Cultural Resources family.
Employee Appreciation
2008 at the Art Museum
The new Cultural Resources
Diversity Choir made its debut at the
2008 Employee Appreciation Day at the
N.C. Museum of Art on Sept. 8. The
“Telling Our Stories” theme was em-phasized
with medley of songs, includ-ing
“A Hard Days Night,” “8 to 5,” the
state song “The Good Old North
State,” and the Americana standard,
“My County ’tis of Thee.” Choir mem-bers
are still sought. Contact
Vivian.McDuffie@ncmail.net or
Tammy.James@ncmail.net.
In addition to a new venue,
health food from Whole Foods pro-vided
a tasty and nutritious lunch.
The new Diversity Choir performs at the Museum of Art amphitheatre, audience watches below
Blog People Treasures
Find out more about your co-workers
at the EEO blog on intranet
http://intranet.ncdcr.gov/portals/46/blo
gs.aspx. The first blog featured Dot Red-ford,
just-retired site manager at Somerset
Place. Suggest a coworket to tell their
story to Jennifer.davison@ncmail.net.
MOH Exhibit Reviews State’s Leaders Page 3
The political campaigns are in high gear, and the
N.C. Museum of History will help citizens understand
how the past influences the present. A new exhibit,
Elected to Serve: North Carolina’s Governors, continues the
museum’s mission of education by examining how gover-nors
helped shape the state and contributed to agricul-ture,
industry and education. Opening Saturday, Oct. 25,
the exhibit will feature artifacts, portraits, and photo-graphs
associated with the lives and times of our state
leaders. Other exhibit topics are inaugural traditions,
contributions of first ladies, and the history of voting in
North Carolina.
Thousands of visitors come to the annual Ameri-can
Indian Heritage celebration at the N.C. Museum of
History. The museum and Bicentennial Plaza will over-flow
with music, dancing, storytelling, hands-on activities,
and food at the 13th annual program on Nov. 22, 11 a.m.-
4 p.m. The free fun filled family program is one of the
ways the museum interprets the state’s history. Watch tra-ditional
dances to the rhythms of northern– and southern–
style drum groups. Make crafts, play games, and listen to
stories and legends shared by Indian storytellers.
Presenters are from the eight state-recognized
tribes: Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-
Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the
Saponi Nation, Sappony and Waccamaw-Siouan. The
celebration is supported by the N.C. Commission of In-dian
Affairs, the N.C. Museum of History Associates, the
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County with
funds from the United Arts campaign and the N.C. Arts
Council.
Dancer at the American Indian Heritage Celebration
American Indian Heritage Celebration
National Arts and Humanities Month
Page 4
Each year there is a coast to coast celebra-tion
of the arts and culture. Coordinated by
Americans for the Arts every October, it has be-come
the largest celebration of the arts and hu-manities
in the nation. Make a special effort to
join your countrymen in enjoying events from
among the wonderful array of opportunities avail-able
by attending a festival, play, lecture, or per-formance.
Visit a museum of historic site. Be-come
proactive and make your own music, paint-ing
or pot. Sing an extra long song in the shower.
And remember to enjoy the arts and humanities
all through the year!
“Government and Heritage Library”
African American Dance Ensemble at Durham’s Festival for the Eno
The State Library’s newly renovated
space has a new designation as well. The new
“Government and Heritage Library” combines
the government and genealogy information and
research centers. Along with affiliated techni-cal
services and programs, it will provide better
services be to the general public and state gov-ernment.
Current and historical information
on state government and North Carolina re-lated
resources and information will be more
accessible than ever. The State Library will
work with state government and North Caro-lina
libraries to enhance access to and use of
this information through dissemination of digi-tal
information products, public access to the
Patrons enjoy better access to services from the State Library digital collections and interlibrary loan.
Albemarle’s Discovery Room
Visitors enjoy period dress in the Discovery Room
The “please touch” motto of the Discovery
Room at the Museum of the Albemarle in Eliza-beth
City invites families to learn about life in the
region first hand. The room offers something for
everyone in a bright, comfortable interactive gallery.
The theme reflects segments of the popular “Our
Story” exhibit in the main gallery. The “Experience
Colonial Times” is the first installment in the Dis-covery
Room encounter. Reproduction items allow
families to try clothes, chores, games, music and
more. The exhibit helps the museum to tell the
story of the 13 counties and the people of the Albe-marle
Region.
Museum of the Cape Fear Looks Forward and Back Page 5
Elizabeth II Celebrates 25 Years
For 25 years, the Elizabeth II (EII) has been star attraction of the
Manteo waterfront. First Lady Carolyn Hunt christened the vessel on Nov.
22, 1983. Eight thousand locals, visitors and dignitaries roared and shrieked
with delight as Elizabeth II slid down the rails into Shallowbag Bay at launch
to journey to the present Roanoke Island Festival Park.
The 25th anniversary commemoration will be Nov. 22 at the origi-nal
launch site, the Roanoke Island Maritime Museum. The EII is represen-tative
of a 16th century sailing vessel and demonstrates what the vessels that
brought Sir Walter Raleigh to the New World were like. Shipbuilders on
the Manteo waterfront used designs of vessels from 1585 to build EII. The
decks were hand-hewn from juniper timbers. Her frames, keel, planking
and decks are secured with 7,000 locust wood pegs. Since the 1983 launch
hundreds of thousands of visitors have climbed aboard to help the crew
sets sails, plot a course and swab the decks!
School children visit the Elizabeth II
The Looking Back and Mov-ing
Forward exhibit at the Cape Fear
Historical Complex in Fayetteville
celebrates and captures the 20 year
history of the museum. From pine
tar to plank roads, the museum
interprets the history of 20 south-eastern
North Carolina counties.
Even as the museum opened in
June 1988, a highway project added
to it. Part of a federal arsenal at
Fayetteville was saved when a re-taining
wall was constructed so that
not all of the arsenal, which in-cludes
Confederate blacksmith and
gun carriage shops, would be lost
to a road. DOT built a bridge to
connect the museum to the park.
The Cape Fear Museum saved
valuable North Carolina history
Visitors enjoy making Victorian era crafts at the Museum of the Cape Fear virtually from its first day.
In October 1998, the 1897 Poe House opened its doors as part of the complex. Elizabeth Poe sold to
the museum her family home, which showcases early 20th century life. The Looking Back and Moving Forward ex-hibit
opened June 6 with an anniversary cake and ice cream reception. October 10-11 anniversary events will
include school tours and activities for the public. Hands-on activities with a stereoscope, paper dolls, Victorian
games and live music in the back yard will be available. The Looking Back exhibit closes Oct. 26. The Rhythm and
Roots of North Carolina Music exhibit developed by the N.C. Museum of History will open Nov. 22. The Cape
Fear Museum Complex continues to preserve and interpret the state’s history and helps other agencies to do so.
Transportation Museum Offers Old-Style Travel Page 6
Digital Documents from State Library
Nearly 500 publications, letters and current historical artifacts about
North Carolina state government and history are available online from the
State Library of North Carolina Digital Repository. Four collections debuted
with the April 2008 launch of the repository, which is free and for public use.
It has been visited by more than 700 users from 10 countries and 36 states.
The largest is the “North Carolina State Publications Collection.” It contains
more than 400 current and historical documents produced by state govern-ment.
Popular topics include education, health and safety, legislation, and
business. As items are added monthly the collection will grow.
The collection “From Crossroads to Capitol: The Founding and Early
History of Raleigh, N.C.” is a joint project between the State Library and State
Archives. “Eugenics in North Carolina” recounts the state’s forced steriliza-tion
movement from 1929 to 1977, and the collection includes government
publications, propaganda and articles.
The “History of Malaria in North Carolina” collection reveals the im-pact
of malaria on the state from the colonial days to the present. It includes
health statistics, case studies and scientific documents. Visit all online at
N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences magazine in http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/dimp/digital/index.html.
State Library’s Digital Repository
Parents and children will enjoy kid-friendly train rides
when they journey aboard the Pumpkin Patch Express or Santa
Train this fall. Spooky fun for families will end at the N.C.
Transportation Museum’s Roundhouse at the Pumpkin Patch
Fair on Oct. 25. Games, goodies, coloring and even pumpkin
painting will be available. A costume contest with reward will
add to the fun.
Vintage diesel engines and classic rail cars are used for
the Pumpkin Patch Express and Santa Train, which rolls the first
three weekends in December. In addition to the experience of
riding the rails, the Santa Train will continue the tradition of
handing out oranges, which dates back to the 1930s Depression.
Children would gather alongside the railroad line and engineers
and train employees of the Southern Railway would pass out the
oranges. For some, it was the only holiday gift they received.
Travel as it was in bygone days also will be enjoyed by
passengers on the Transportation Museum’s Virginia Autumn
Train Excursion on Nov. 1-2. Departing from Spencer, the train
will stop in Greensboro each day before reaching its destination
of Charlottesville, Va. Spectacular views of the mountain scenery
and the Dan, Roanoke and James Rivers will make this a memo-rable
journey.
Pumpkin painting pirate at the Transportation Museum
N.C. Maps from Bygone Days on the Web Page 7
President Andrew Johnson Review
From wagon routes to interstate highways, dating from
the 1600s to the 1960s, maps that show where travelers were go-ing
in North Carolina are now online at the new North Carolina
Maps Web site. A collaboration among the North Carolina State
Archives, Outer Banks History Center, and UNC-Chapel Hill,
the website will include more than 1,500 digitally reproduced
maps, and will be the most complete collection of state maps
online.
“Historians, genealogists, students and teachers will find
this a useful site,” says Druscie Simpson, head of the State Ar-chives
Information and Technology Branch. “It contains county
maps, city maps, and even maps of watercourses–rivers and
lakes,” she explains.
The project was initiated by UNC-Chapel Hill, where it
was recognized that the State Archives and the university had the
largest map collections in North Carolina. A $414,077 grant
from the State Library of North Carolina ECHO (Exploring Cul-tural
Heritage Online) program is funding the project. This is the
second year of the three year North Carolina Maps Digitization
Project, funded by the State Library through the federal Library
Services and Technology Act.
North Carolina’s coastline and the many changes
wrought by time, storms and other factors are well illustrated in
the online map collection, through maps from the State Archives’
Outer Banks History Center (OBHC) in Manteo. OBHC Curator
KaeLi Spiers maintains that maps from a federal program made
inclusion of that collection especially important.
The North Carolina Maps site will be easy to use. Just
click on www.lib.unc.edu/dc/ncmaps and follow the outline.
Carolinas map from 1775
Cultural Resources
Collections Online
From arrowheads to modern art, the
millions of holdings of the Department of Cul-tural
Resources are now catalogued in a com-prehensive
database. Every aspect of our his-tory
and culture are detailed in the collection.
The digitized images are paired with object
records and will be instantly viewable. This
should greatly aid researchers, scholars, insur-ance
appraisers and others. Sensitive informa-tion
will not be available online.
Artworks, artifacts, and archives from
the Cultural Resources unified databases will
create online holdings to rival many well-known
institutions. The first components are
scheduled to go live in January 2009 for staff
and public use.
Andrew Johnson became Amer-ica’s
17th president the day after Presi-dent
Lincoln was assassinated. A special
program about Johnson and his role in
the post Civil War South will be pre-sented
at the State Capitol at noon on
Dec. 1. Dr. Dan T. Carter , one of the
nation’s foremost Southern historians,
will speak in a program sponsored by the
Office of Archives and History. The
State Capitol will show the special ex-hibit,
Raleigh’s Own President: Andrew Johnson’s Life in North Carolina
Nov. 21, 2008-Jan. 16, 2009, commemorating his 200th birthday.
Johnson was too poor to attend
school so apprenticed with a local tailor. In
his shop Johnson learned two life-changing
skills: how to perform the tailor’s craft and
how to read. Johnson’s North Carolina roots,
tumultuous presidency, and historic impeach-ment
are presented in the exhibit.
Symphony Makes New Spanish Music Page 8
The world premiere of a composition per-formed
by the North Carolina Symphony on Thurs-day,
Oct. 2, at Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill cele-brated
the major exhibition, “El Greco to Velaquez:
Art During the Reign of Phillip III” at Duke Univer-sity’s
Nasher Museum of Art. North Carolina com-poser
Stephen Jaffe created “Cithera Mia
(Evocations): Spanish Music Notebook” which was
co-commissioned by the symphony and the Nasher
Museum. Jaffe is a Mary and James H. Semans pro-fessor
of music at Duke University.
“We’re excited to be part of this tapestry
which weaves together so many parts of our artistic
community,” says Symphony CEO David Cham-bless
Worters. “Partnerships like this, under the
Nasher Museum’s leadership, show how integrated
the arts are into North Carolina’s culture.”
The North Carolina symphony believes in
the importance of supporting new work and North
Carolina composers like Jaffe to keep vitality in the
art form. The concert, which had a Spanish theme
and was presented on Oct. 3-4 at Meymandi Hall in
the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts.
Education Curator JoAnne Powell was recognized
for her outstanding performance at the N.C. Maritime Mu-seum
in Beaufort with the National Marine Educators As-sociation
Marine Education Award for 2008. She is the
outstanding marine science educator for North Carolina
and the mid-Atlantic region.
Powell was honored by the association at a July 23
ceremony in Savannah, Ga. Among the education pro-grams
she oversees are Summer Science and public pro-grams.
She has been curator of education at the museum
for 31 years.
St. James by El Greco in the Nasher Museum’s exhibit “El Greco
to Velaquez: Art During the Reign of Phillip III”
Powell Rewarded for Marine
Education at Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum Education Curator JoAnne Powell, left,
accepts award from Lynn Whitley, NMEA officer
Related lectures and chamber music concerts also are
planned through October 10. Call (919) 733-2750 or go
to www.ncsymphony.org for information.
NCMA Welcomes “Tippy Toes” Page 9
Arts Council Listens
Welcome Tippy Toes, one of the Museum’s newest acquisitions by
contemporary artist Alison Saar, to the N.C. Museum of Art. A generous
gift from the Museum’s Friends of African and African American Art
(FAAAA), Tippy Toes is a petite figure suspended by a seemingly delicate,
ladder like crinoline, though its delicacy belies the strength of the bronze
from which it is cast and the thorns that suggest a difficult climb. Tippy Toes
is the group’s first purchase for the Museum. Inspired by African Ameri-can
culture, history, and narratives, Saar’s works often speak to the fragility
of natural and social environments, and to the strength and femininity of
women.
Tippy Toes goes on view Oct. 14, and represents a significant contri-bution
to the museum’s efforts to diversify and expand the contemporary
collection. The acquisition reflect the advocacy of FAAAA, a diverse
group of art lovers having a strong interest in both historical and contem-porary
African and African American art.
Raised in a Los Angeles suburb , Saar received a bachelor’s degree
from Scripps College and master’s of fine arts from the Otis Art Institute.
A past Arts Council public meeting in Durham
Issues affecting the arts and strategic planning
for the future will be the focus of three public meetings
to be held by the N.C. Arts Council this fall. The future
of the arts industry, the 2009-2013 strategic plan, and
issues challenging the arts are among agenda items.
The Arts Council invites employees of the De-partment
of Cultural Resources to share ideas and sug-gestions
on how to better serve arts organizations and
artists, how citizens can have more arts experiences in
their daily lives, and how we can work together to build
a robust state through the arts.
Meetings will be 7-9 p.m., and citizens can talk
with Arts Council board members and staff. Additional
details about the public meetings and draft plan will be
announced in mid-October at www.ncarts.org.
Meeting Dates:
Monday, Oct. 27: Asheville
YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St.
Tuesday, Oct. 28: Winston-Salem
Delta Fine Arts Center, 2611 New Walkertown Rd.
Thursday, Nov. 6
Music Academy of Eastern Carolina, 1400 Red Banks Rd.
Tippy Toes, by Alison Saar
109 East Jones Street || MSC 4601
Raleigh, NC 27699-4601
Phone: (919) 807-7385
Fax: (919) 733-1620
“Knights of the Black Flag”
at N. C. Maritime Museum
Throughout history pirates and their exploits have
fascinated people of all ages. The N.C. Maritime Museum in
Beaufort interprets and educates about marine history and
lore, and is presenting the “Knights of the Black Flag” ex-hibit
through Dec. 28.
Infamous characters plied America’s East Coast and
the Caribbean, and left a legacy of myths from the Golden
Age of Piracy. Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonny, Mary Reed and
the notorious Blackbeard are the source of legends today.
The exhibit features life-sized pirates dressed in pe-riod
clothing along with costumes museum goers can slip
into to get a taste of the real experience. Replica cannons,
swords, muskets, and flintlock pistols are on view. Paintings
by Don Maitz and Donna Nyzio also are exhibited.
The museum is free and open daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. “Blackbeard’s Revenge” courtesy of Don Maitz
Fall Shipwreck Dive
Researchers are at work in waters near Fort
Macon recovering artifacts from the wreck of the
presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flag-ship.
The Office of Archives and History took
over study of the shipwreck in 1997. It was discov-ered
by Intersal, Inc. of Florida in November 1996.
Joining the team for a week this season
were Detective Dana Rowsey and Officer Herb
Doss from Charleston, W.Va. They want to im-prove
underwater crime scene investigation tech-niques
and are learning a lot from our team. A film
crew from England will arrive in mid-October to
work on a documentary for Britain’s Channel 5 and
WNET in New York.
The dive will continue through early No-vember.
Besides the usual ballast stones and lead
shot, researchers have recovered a nesting weighing
cup and a large mammal bone.
Detective Dana Rowsey and Officer Herb Doss at QAR site

“Telling Our Stories” Photography Exhibit
In addition to its booth in the Kerr Scott building at the State Fair Oct. 16-26,
Cultural Resources will bring storytellers to the fair this year. It’s part of the obser-vance
of the 2008 “Telling Our Stories” theme. The State Fair has made available the
Folk Festival tent for seven of the 10 evenings of the fair. Members of the Black Sto-rytellers
Association and the North Carolina Storytellers Guild are volunteering to tell
stories at 6 p.m. This free family entertainment will be food for the spirits and a lift
for the soul. Visit www.ncculture.com under “News” for the schedule.
Storytellers at the State Fair
Spring 2008 Vol. 1 Issue 3 - Fall 2008
The Department of Cultural Resources has
organized a traveling exhibit of North Carolina’s
professional and amateur photographers along
with images from the State Archives. From Octo-ber
2008 to December 2009 the photographs will
travel to 34 public libraries from Elizabeth City to
Lake Lure.
The Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibit
celebrates the 2008 Cultural Resources “Telling
Our Stories” theme. Images from the State Ar-chives
will be on tour for the first time.
In a collaboration with Our State magazine,
the top winners of its Readers Choice photography
contest will be presented. Works submitted by
some of the state’s best professional photogra-phers
were selected by a panel at Cultural Re-sources.
The State Library made the exhibit avail-able
to libraries that requested it. The exhibit
starts in the east on Oct. 9 at New Hanover Public
“Chore Time at the Farm” from the State Archives, ConDev 188A
Library in Wilmington and will be formally launched on
Oct. 16 in Winston-Salem at the Forsyth County Public
Library.
These photographs focus a lens on our state at
work and play, young and old, and reflect the many stories
that can be told about our state.
Storyteller “Gran’daddy Junebug”
Vol. 1 Issue 3 - Fall 2008
New Theme for Cultural Resources in 2009 Page 2
The new ��Treasure N.C. Culture” theme for the depart-ment
in 2009 will allow agencies to showcase all the unique and
valuable programs and services that they offer. The logo should be
used on letterhead, web pages, and in all promotional materials cre-ated
within the department. It also will serve as a unifying image
for all of the wonderful elements in the Cultural Resources family.
Employee Appreciation
2008 at the Art Museum
The new Cultural Resources
Diversity Choir made its debut at the
2008 Employee Appreciation Day at the
N.C. Museum of Art on Sept. 8. The
“Telling Our Stories” theme was em-phasized
with medley of songs, includ-ing
“A Hard Days Night,” “8 to 5,” the
state song “The Good Old North
State,” and the Americana standard,
“My County ’tis of Thee.” Choir mem-bers
are still sought. Contact
Vivian.McDuffie@ncmail.net or
Tammy.James@ncmail.net.
In addition to a new venue,
health food from Whole Foods pro-vided
a tasty and nutritious lunch.
The new Diversity Choir performs at the Museum of Art amphitheatre, audience watches below
Blog People Treasures
Find out more about your co-workers
at the EEO blog on intranet
http://intranet.ncdcr.gov/portals/46/blo
gs.aspx. The first blog featured Dot Red-ford,
just-retired site manager at Somerset
Place. Suggest a coworket to tell their
story to Jennifer.davison@ncmail.net.
MOH Exhibit Reviews State’s Leaders Page 3
The political campaigns are in high gear, and the
N.C. Museum of History will help citizens understand
how the past influences the present. A new exhibit,
Elected to Serve: North Carolina’s Governors, continues the
museum’s mission of education by examining how gover-nors
helped shape the state and contributed to agricul-ture,
industry and education. Opening Saturday, Oct. 25,
the exhibit will feature artifacts, portraits, and photo-graphs
associated with the lives and times of our state
leaders. Other exhibit topics are inaugural traditions,
contributions of first ladies, and the history of voting in
North Carolina.
Thousands of visitors come to the annual Ameri-can
Indian Heritage celebration at the N.C. Museum of
History. The museum and Bicentennial Plaza will over-flow
with music, dancing, storytelling, hands-on activities,
and food at the 13th annual program on Nov. 22, 11 a.m.-
4 p.m. The free fun filled family program is one of the
ways the museum interprets the state’s history. Watch tra-ditional
dances to the rhythms of northern– and southern–
style drum groups. Make crafts, play games, and listen to
stories and legends shared by Indian storytellers.
Presenters are from the eight state-recognized
tribes: Coharie, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Haliwa-
Saponi, Lumbee, Meherrin, Occaneechi Band of the
Saponi Nation, Sappony and Waccamaw-Siouan. The
celebration is supported by the N.C. Commission of In-dian
Affairs, the N.C. Museum of History Associates, the
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County with
funds from the United Arts campaign and the N.C. Arts
Council.
Dancer at the American Indian Heritage Celebration
American Indian Heritage Celebration
National Arts and Humanities Month
Page 4
Each year there is a coast to coast celebra-tion
of the arts and culture. Coordinated by
Americans for the Arts every October, it has be-come
the largest celebration of the arts and hu-manities
in the nation. Make a special effort to
join your countrymen in enjoying events from
among the wonderful array of opportunities avail-able
by attending a festival, play, lecture, or per-formance.
Visit a museum of historic site. Be-come
proactive and make your own music, paint-ing
or pot. Sing an extra long song in the shower.
And remember to enjoy the arts and humanities
all through the year!
“Government and Heritage Library”
African American Dance Ensemble at Durham’s Festival for the Eno
The State Library’s newly renovated
space has a new designation as well. The new
“Government and Heritage Library” combines
the government and genealogy information and
research centers. Along with affiliated techni-cal
services and programs, it will provide better
services be to the general public and state gov-ernment.
Current and historical information
on state government and North Carolina re-lated
resources and information will be more
accessible than ever. The State Library will
work with state government and North Caro-lina
libraries to enhance access to and use of
this information through dissemination of digi-tal
information products, public access to the
Patrons enjoy better access to services from the State Library digital collections and interlibrary loan.
Albemarle’s Discovery Room
Visitors enjoy period dress in the Discovery Room
The “please touch” motto of the Discovery
Room at the Museum of the Albemarle in Eliza-beth
City invites families to learn about life in the
region first hand. The room offers something for
everyone in a bright, comfortable interactive gallery.
The theme reflects segments of the popular “Our
Story” exhibit in the main gallery. The “Experience
Colonial Times” is the first installment in the Dis-covery
Room encounter. Reproduction items allow
families to try clothes, chores, games, music and
more. The exhibit helps the museum to tell the
story of the 13 counties and the people of the Albe-marle
Region.
Museum of the Cape Fear Looks Forward and Back Page 5
Elizabeth II Celebrates 25 Years
For 25 years, the Elizabeth II (EII) has been star attraction of the
Manteo waterfront. First Lady Carolyn Hunt christened the vessel on Nov.
22, 1983. Eight thousand locals, visitors and dignitaries roared and shrieked
with delight as Elizabeth II slid down the rails into Shallowbag Bay at launch
to journey to the present Roanoke Island Festival Park.
The 25th anniversary commemoration will be Nov. 22 at the origi-nal
launch site, the Roanoke Island Maritime Museum. The EII is represen-tative
of a 16th century sailing vessel and demonstrates what the vessels that
brought Sir Walter Raleigh to the New World were like. Shipbuilders on
the Manteo waterfront used designs of vessels from 1585 to build EII. The
decks were hand-hewn from juniper timbers. Her frames, keel, planking
and decks are secured with 7,000 locust wood pegs. Since the 1983 launch
hundreds of thousands of visitors have climbed aboard to help the crew
sets sails, plot a course and swab the decks!
School children visit the Elizabeth II
The Looking Back and Mov-ing
Forward exhibit at the Cape Fear
Historical Complex in Fayetteville
celebrates and captures the 20 year
history of the museum. From pine
tar to plank roads, the museum
interprets the history of 20 south-eastern
North Carolina counties.
Even as the museum opened in
June 1988, a highway project added
to it. Part of a federal arsenal at
Fayetteville was saved when a re-taining
wall was constructed so that
not all of the arsenal, which in-cludes
Confederate blacksmith and
gun carriage shops, would be lost
to a road. DOT built a bridge to
connect the museum to the park.
The Cape Fear Museum saved
valuable North Carolina history
Visitors enjoy making Victorian era crafts at the Museum of the Cape Fear virtually from its first day.
In October 1998, the 1897 Poe House opened its doors as part of the complex. Elizabeth Poe sold to
the museum her family home, which showcases early 20th century life. The Looking Back and Moving Forward ex-hibit
opened June 6 with an anniversary cake and ice cream reception. October 10-11 anniversary events will
include school tours and activities for the public. Hands-on activities with a stereoscope, paper dolls, Victorian
games and live music in the back yard will be available. The Looking Back exhibit closes Oct. 26. The Rhythm and
Roots of North Carolina Music exhibit developed by the N.C. Museum of History will open Nov. 22. The Cape
Fear Museum Complex continues to preserve and interpret the state’s history and helps other agencies to do so.
Transportation Museum Offers Old-Style Travel Page 6
Digital Documents from State Library
Nearly 500 publications, letters and current historical artifacts about
North Carolina state government and history are available online from the
State Library of North Carolina Digital Repository. Four collections debuted
with the April 2008 launch of the repository, which is free and for public use.
It has been visited by more than 700 users from 10 countries and 36 states.
The largest is the “North Carolina State Publications Collection.” It contains
more than 400 current and historical documents produced by state govern-ment.
Popular topics include education, health and safety, legislation, and
business. As items are added monthly the collection will grow.
The collection “From Crossroads to Capitol: The Founding and Early
History of Raleigh, N.C.” is a joint project between the State Library and State
Archives. “Eugenics in North Carolina” recounts the state’s forced steriliza-tion
movement from 1929 to 1977, and the collection includes government
publications, propaganda and articles.
The “History of Malaria in North Carolina” collection reveals the im-pact
of malaria on the state from the colonial days to the present. It includes
health statistics, case studies and scientific documents. Visit all online at
N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences magazine in http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/dimp/digital/index.html.
State Library’s Digital Repository
Parents and children will enjoy kid-friendly train rides
when they journey aboard the Pumpkin Patch Express or Santa
Train this fall. Spooky fun for families will end at the N.C.
Transportation Museum’s Roundhouse at the Pumpkin Patch
Fair on Oct. 25. Games, goodies, coloring and even pumpkin
painting will be available. A costume contest with reward will
add to the fun.
Vintage diesel engines and classic rail cars are used for
the Pumpkin Patch Express and Santa Train, which rolls the first
three weekends in December. In addition to the experience of
riding the rails, the Santa Train will continue the tradition of
handing out oranges, which dates back to the 1930s Depression.
Children would gather alongside the railroad line and engineers
and train employees of the Southern Railway would pass out the
oranges. For some, it was the only holiday gift they received.
Travel as it was in bygone days also will be enjoyed by
passengers on the Transportation Museum’s Virginia Autumn
Train Excursion on Nov. 1-2. Departing from Spencer, the train
will stop in Greensboro each day before reaching its destination
of Charlottesville, Va. Spectacular views of the mountain scenery
and the Dan, Roanoke and James Rivers will make this a memo-rable
journey.
Pumpkin painting pirate at the Transportation Museum
N.C. Maps from Bygone Days on the Web Page 7
President Andrew Johnson Review
From wagon routes to interstate highways, dating from
the 1600s to the 1960s, maps that show where travelers were go-ing
in North Carolina are now online at the new North Carolina
Maps Web site. A collaboration among the North Carolina State
Archives, Outer Banks History Center, and UNC-Chapel Hill,
the website will include more than 1,500 digitally reproduced
maps, and will be the most complete collection of state maps
online.
“Historians, genealogists, students and teachers will find
this a useful site,” says Druscie Simpson, head of the State Ar-chives
Information and Technology Branch. “It contains county
maps, city maps, and even maps of watercourses–rivers and
lakes,” she explains.
The project was initiated by UNC-Chapel Hill, where it
was recognized that the State Archives and the university had the
largest map collections in North Carolina. A $414,077 grant
from the State Library of North Carolina ECHO (Exploring Cul-tural
Heritage Online) program is funding the project. This is the
second year of the three year North Carolina Maps Digitization
Project, funded by the State Library through the federal Library
Services and Technology Act.
North Carolina’s coastline and the many changes
wrought by time, storms and other factors are well illustrated in
the online map collection, through maps from the State Archives’
Outer Banks History Center (OBHC) in Manteo. OBHC Curator
KaeLi Spiers maintains that maps from a federal program made
inclusion of that collection especially important.
The North Carolina Maps site will be easy to use. Just
click on www.lib.unc.edu/dc/ncmaps and follow the outline.
Carolinas map from 1775
Cultural Resources
Collections Online
From arrowheads to modern art, the
millions of holdings of the Department of Cul-tural
Resources are now catalogued in a com-prehensive
database. Every aspect of our his-tory
and culture are detailed in the collection.
The digitized images are paired with object
records and will be instantly viewable. This
should greatly aid researchers, scholars, insur-ance
appraisers and others. Sensitive informa-tion
will not be available online.
Artworks, artifacts, and archives from
the Cultural Resources unified databases will
create online holdings to rival many well-known
institutions. The first components are
scheduled to go live in January 2009 for staff
and public use.
Andrew Johnson became Amer-ica’s
17th president the day after Presi-dent
Lincoln was assassinated. A special
program about Johnson and his role in
the post Civil War South will be pre-sented
at the State Capitol at noon on
Dec. 1. Dr. Dan T. Carter , one of the
nation’s foremost Southern historians,
will speak in a program sponsored by the
Office of Archives and History. The
State Capitol will show the special ex-hibit,
Raleigh’s Own President: Andrew Johnson’s Life in North Carolina
Nov. 21, 2008-Jan. 16, 2009, commemorating his 200th birthday.
Johnson was too poor to attend
school so apprenticed with a local tailor. In
his shop Johnson learned two life-changing
skills: how to perform the tailor’s craft and
how to read. Johnson’s North Carolina roots,
tumultuous presidency, and historic impeach-ment
are presented in the exhibit.
Symphony Makes New Spanish Music Page 8
The world premiere of a composition per-formed
by the North Carolina Symphony on Thurs-day,
Oct. 2, at Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill cele-brated
the major exhibition, “El Greco to Velaquez:
Art During the Reign of Phillip III” at Duke Univer-sity’s
Nasher Museum of Art. North Carolina com-poser
Stephen Jaffe created “Cithera Mia
(Evocations): Spanish Music Notebook” which was
co-commissioned by the symphony and the Nasher
Museum. Jaffe is a Mary and James H. Semans pro-fessor
of music at Duke University.
“We’re excited to be part of this tapestry
which weaves together so many parts of our artistic
community,” says Symphony CEO David Cham-bless
Worters. “Partnerships like this, under the
Nasher Museum’s leadership, show how integrated
the arts are into North Carolina’s culture.”
The North Carolina symphony believes in
the importance of supporting new work and North
Carolina composers like Jaffe to keep vitality in the
art form. The concert, which had a Spanish theme
and was presented on Oct. 3-4 at Meymandi Hall in
the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts.
Education Curator JoAnne Powell was recognized
for her outstanding performance at the N.C. Maritime Mu-seum
in Beaufort with the National Marine Educators As-sociation
Marine Education Award for 2008. She is the
outstanding marine science educator for North Carolina
and the mid-Atlantic region.
Powell was honored by the association at a July 23
ceremony in Savannah, Ga. Among the education pro-grams
she oversees are Summer Science and public pro-grams.
She has been curator of education at the museum
for 31 years.
St. James by El Greco in the Nasher Museum’s exhibit “El Greco
to Velaquez: Art During the Reign of Phillip III”
Powell Rewarded for Marine
Education at Maritime Museum
Maritime Museum Education Curator JoAnne Powell, left,
accepts award from Lynn Whitley, NMEA officer
Related lectures and chamber music concerts also are
planned through October 10. Call (919) 733-2750 or go
to www.ncsymphony.org for information.
NCMA Welcomes “Tippy Toes” Page 9
Arts Council Listens
Welcome Tippy Toes, one of the Museum’s newest acquisitions by
contemporary artist Alison Saar, to the N.C. Museum of Art. A generous
gift from the Museum’s Friends of African and African American Art
(FAAAA), Tippy Toes is a petite figure suspended by a seemingly delicate,
ladder like crinoline, though its delicacy belies the strength of the bronze
from which it is cast and the thorns that suggest a difficult climb. Tippy Toes
is the group’s first purchase for the Museum. Inspired by African Ameri-can
culture, history, and narratives, Saar’s works often speak to the fragility
of natural and social environments, and to the strength and femininity of
women.
Tippy Toes goes on view Oct. 14, and represents a significant contri-bution
to the museum’s efforts to diversify and expand the contemporary
collection. The acquisition reflect the advocacy of FAAAA, a diverse
group of art lovers having a strong interest in both historical and contem-porary
African and African American art.
Raised in a Los Angeles suburb , Saar received a bachelor’s degree
from Scripps College and master’s of fine arts from the Otis Art Institute.
A past Arts Council public meeting in Durham
Issues affecting the arts and strategic planning
for the future will be the focus of three public meetings
to be held by the N.C. Arts Council this fall. The future
of the arts industry, the 2009-2013 strategic plan, and
issues challenging the arts are among agenda items.
The Arts Council invites employees of the De-partment
of Cultural Resources to share ideas and sug-gestions
on how to better serve arts organizations and
artists, how citizens can have more arts experiences in
their daily lives, and how we can work together to build
a robust state through the arts.
Meetings will be 7-9 p.m., and citizens can talk
with Arts Council board members and staff. Additional
details about the public meetings and draft plan will be
announced in mid-October at www.ncarts.org.
Meeting Dates:
Monday, Oct. 27: Asheville
YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St.
Tuesday, Oct. 28: Winston-Salem
Delta Fine Arts Center, 2611 New Walkertown Rd.
Thursday, Nov. 6
Music Academy of Eastern Carolina, 1400 Red Banks Rd.
Tippy Toes, by Alison Saar
109 East Jones Street || MSC 4601
Raleigh, NC 27699-4601
Phone: (919) 807-7385
Fax: (919) 733-1620
“Knights of the Black Flag”
at N. C. Maritime Museum
Throughout history pirates and their exploits have
fascinated people of all ages. The N.C. Maritime Museum in
Beaufort interprets and educates about marine history and
lore, and is presenting the “Knights of the Black Flag” ex-hibit
through Dec. 28.
Infamous characters plied America’s East Coast and
the Caribbean, and left a legacy of myths from the Golden
Age of Piracy. Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonny, Mary Reed and
the notorious Blackbeard are the source of legends today.
The exhibit features life-sized pirates dressed in pe-riod
clothing along with costumes museum goers can slip
into to get a taste of the real experience. Replica cannons,
swords, muskets, and flintlock pistols are on view. Paintings
by Don Maitz and Donna Nyzio also are exhibited.
The museum is free and open daily, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. “Blackbeard’s Revenge” courtesy of Don Maitz
Fall Shipwreck Dive
Researchers are at work in waters near Fort
Macon recovering artifacts from the wreck of the
presumed Queen Anne’s Revenge, Blackbeard’s flag-ship.
The Office of Archives and History took
over study of the shipwreck in 1997. It was discov-ered
by Intersal, Inc. of Florida in November 1996.
Joining the team for a week this season
were Detective Dana Rowsey and Officer Herb
Doss from Charleston, W.Va. They want to im-prove
underwater crime scene investigation tech-niques
and are learning a lot from our team. A film
crew from England will arrive in mid-October to
work on a documentary for Britain’s Channel 5 and
WNET in New York.
The dive will continue through early No-vember.
Besides the usual ballast stones and lead
shot, researchers have recovered a nesting weighing
cup and a large mammal bone.
Detective Dana Rowsey and Officer Herb Doss at QAR site